Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
C++ is to C as Lung Cancer is to Lung.
Anonymous
C is quirky, flawed and an enormous success.
Dennis Ritchie
The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.
Anonymous
A fool with a tool is still a fool.
Anonymous
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
Clark's law
Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
Rich Kulawiec
One who works with their hands is a laborer.
Anonymous
One who works with their hands and their mind is a craftsman.
One who works with their hands, mind and heart is an artist.
The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there.
Gordon Bell
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
Robert R. Coveyou, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
It is the user who should parameterize procedures, not their creators.
Alan J. Perlis